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Homonym
12+ albums
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Homonym is the artistic face of Vienna based, British singer-songwriter, Michael Dey. A Homonym describes two words that are spelt or sound the same as one another, but have a different meaning. The sound and songs of Homonym share a same duality; reaching from sparse, intimately sung, disconcertingly honest phrases, to sweeping, crashing, soaring vocal melodies, likened equally to the songwriting style of John K. Samson as the textures of Bon Iver, Phoebe Bridgers and Bright Eyes. Born and bred in the valleys of Northern England, Michael was raised as a multi instrumentalist in the DIY scene of Bradford, West Yorkshire; chewed up by punk rock in his teens, and spat out a decade later as a folk singer. He went on to study popular music at the renowned creative hub of Goldsmiths University of London. While the preceding years were centred around working as a backing vocalist, drummer and keyboard player, it was in London that Michael found his own voice, confidence and place as both a lead singer and songwriter. This was followed by years of touring solo, and eventually relocating to Vienna, Austria in 2015, where since, he’s continued to perform, write and release in various projects, before arriving at ‘Homonym’. The first, self-titled release is to be split into four, narratively cohesive singles, the first of which was 'Abel', a tale about when life doesn't go quite according to plan, and ‘Find Me’, which would go on to heavy rotation on Austria's Radio Fm4. User-cont
